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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 11, 2021 2:24:38 GMT
So lets ignore all the politics and just judge the actor Ronald Reagan, How would you rate Reagan as an actor?
Only thing i have seen him in is Dark Victory (1939) and he was ok in that movie.
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Post by moviemouth on May 11, 2021 2:27:57 GMT
I have seen 3 movies starring him.
I don't remember his performance in Dark Victory, but he is good in Storm Warning and The Killers (1964).
In Storm Warning he plays the DA of a small town run by the KKK and he is trying to take them down and he plays the main villain in The Killers.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 11, 2021 2:47:57 GMT
He was pretty good in the Killers. Better than I expected.
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Post by kolchak92 on May 11, 2021 2:49:10 GMT
He was a perfectly adequate and respectable actor, no Olivier, but decent.
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Post by kolchak92 on May 11, 2021 2:51:08 GMT
I have seen 3 movies starring him. I don't remember his performance in Dark Victory, but he is good in Storm Warning and The Killers (1964). In Storm Warning he plays the DA of a small town run by the KKK and he is trying to take them down and he plays the main villain in The Killers. Storm Warning sounds interesting, I should check that out.
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Post by moviemouth on May 11, 2021 2:54:26 GMT
I have seen 3 movies starring him. I don't remember his performance in Dark Victory, but he is good in Storm Warning and The Killers (1964). In Storm Warning he plays the DA of a small town run by the KKK and he is trying to take them down and he plays the main villain in The Killers. Storm Warning sounds interesting, I should check that out. It's a good movie.
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on May 11, 2021 4:46:21 GMT
I have only seen him in Don Siegel's remake of The Killers. Like others before me have expressed, he was better in it than his reputation would have suggested otherwise to me. Reportedly he himself was displeased with the role, especially that he had to strike a woman.
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Post by mgmarshall on May 11, 2021 4:54:43 GMT
Mediocre to average. Had a handsome face when he was younger, but all the charisma of a piece of drywall. John Wayne had more personality, and Bogart could out-act him in his sleep. I thought he was alright in Dark Victory, but he's a pretty minor character in that one. I've heard good things about him in King's Row, but I haven't seen that one yet. Anybody else seen it?
I do like him a lot in The Killers, though. Maybe he should've played more villains...
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on May 11, 2021 6:16:45 GMT
Never seen a Ronald Reagan film. He was a great orator as President though. Great voice. His acting background seemingly came in handy.
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Post by politicidal on May 11, 2021 12:39:53 GMT
I saw him in just a few movies. There was the war movie Desperate Journey. One was a western called Law and Order. Then a adventure movie called Tropic Zone. He wasn’t necessarily bad in any of these, but it could had been played by anybody. The last was the remake of The Killers. And he’s very good in that.
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Post by mortsahlfan on May 11, 2021 15:14:55 GMT
Wooden
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Post by mikef6 on May 11, 2021 16:27:54 GMT
"The Killers" (1964) was his last work as an actor but was the first and only Bad Guy he ever played. It is one of his best performances perhaps because it is so unexpected of him.
But I think his best is as early 20th century major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander in "The Winning Team" (1952). Alexander had epilepsy after being plucked on the head with a hit ball in 1911 and then being assigned to artillery in WWI. The disorder was misunderstood and feared until fairly recent years. The movie never mentions the E-word even though Reagan, to his credit, lobbied for it to be used.
Others I've seen are:
Hell’s Kitchen (1939). A Dead End Kids movie. Reagan is the lawyer nephew of a gangster who wants to go straight.
Dark Victory (1939). Small supporting role to Bette Davis who kills in this.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941) as a fast-talking happy-go-lucky reporter solving a murder. No cats are in this movie.
Desperate Journey (1942) second fiddle to Errol Flynn as part of a bomber crew shot down behind enemy lines. Has a good double-talk scene.
The Hasty Heart (1949). Very well done drama about soldiers recovering from wounds in WWII.
Bedtime For Bonzo (1951). A pleasant farce that got a bad rep when Reagan turned politician. The movie became a punch line.
Hellcats Of The Navy (1957). Reagan as a WWII submarine commander. His next to last movie. He met Nancy Davis on this film and later married her.
Never great.
Sometimes very good.
Always reliable.
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Post by lowtacks86 on May 11, 2021 17:38:28 GMT
Never seen any of his movies. I kinda wanna see that one where he's paired up with a chimp:  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 11, 2021 18:27:59 GMT
Exactly the word I would have chose. He was very good in Kings Row and The Hasty Heart, fairly good in Brother Rat. past those two, meh.
To be fair, he never had the best of roles. Most of them were sappy, Knute Rockne, All American, Santa Fe Trail, Bedtime for Bonzo. No one could have made much of those parts.
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Post by mortsahlfan on May 11, 2021 20:24:36 GMT
Exactly the word I would have chose. He was very good in Kings Row and The Hasty Heart, fairly good in Brother Rat. past those two, meh.
To be fair, he never had the best of roles. Most of them were sappy, Knute Rockne, All American, Santa Fe Trail, Bedtime for Bonzo. No one could have made much of those parts.
I heard he was upstaged by a monkey! 
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